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phendrenad2last Thursday at 2:50 PM2 repliesview on HN

Prices "soaring" like everything else? I'm sick of these articles that pick one product in isolation and ignore the fact that we're in hyperinflation and it affects products unevenly. (Egg farmers have likely been unable to mitigate bird flu because they artificially kept costs low to avoid shocking the public into abandoning eggs entirely, but now they need to overcompensate because of this random event).


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pstjeanlast Thursday at 4:13 PM

Hyperinflation is defined as a monthly inflation rate exceeding 50%. In the U.S., the latest CPI numbers from January indicate a monthly rate of 0.5%.

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bufordtwainlast Thursday at 3:42 PM

Where is the evidence that we're in hyperinflation?